“Preface” also published in the the Fortnightly Review, December 1920, and reprinted, with omission of first five and last two paragraphs, as “The Decline of the Drama” in the Dial, January 1921. The Coming of Gabrielle is a revision of Elizabeth Cooper (A33), and in its present form was previously published in the English Review, March, April and May 1920, an act in each number. Some of the dialogue is based on letters from “Gabrielle” (the Baronne Franzi Ripp) to GM. See George Moore’s Correspondence with the Mysterious Countess (A67).

GM (in a note quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 5 July 1923), commenting on a paragraph published the previous week which referred to The Coming of Gabrielle as “a re-written” version of Elizabeth Cooper, wrote “1 would rather you had spoken of ‘The Coming of Gabrielle' as a new play written on a similar theme to that handled in its predecessor. The characters are not the same, with the exception of the three principals, while in respect of construction and of dialogue the two plays differ materially.”

A39-2a First American edition

Title Page

The

Coming of Gabrielle

A COMEDY

GEORGE MOORE

BONI AND LIVERIGHT

PUBLISHERS [space] NEW YORK

1921

Launch

Published 4 May 1921 at $4.00 in an edition of 895 copies

Description

Height: 8 1/8 in; 8.13 in; 20.64 cm

Width: 6 1/4 in; 6.25 in; 15.88 cm

[1-8]8, [9]4; pp 136, comprising:

half title, with list of twenty-one WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE on verso, pp [1-2];
title page, with

BY BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC.

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at top and

nine-line production CAUTION note

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Printed in the United States of America

at foot of verso, pp [3-4];

notice of limitation, verso blank, pp [5-6];

This edition is limited to 895 numbered copies

of which this is No. ＿ [numbered in ink]

PREFACE pp 7-26;
fly-title, verso blank, pp [27-28];
author’s NOTE, with list of PEOPLE IN THE PLAY on verso, pp [29-30];
text pp 31-[133];
pp [134-36] blank;
royal blue endpapers;
all edges trimmed;
top edges stained blue;
blue paper-covered board sides, back cover plain, black leather label on upper left corner of front cover, gilt stamped

[ornament] GEORGE [ornament]

[ornament] MOORE’S [ornament]

THE COMING

GABRIELLE

all within decorative gilt border

white parchment spine with black leather label on spine, gilt lettered

THE

COMING

GABRIELLE

three ornaments

GEORGE

MOORE

Text differs slightly from that of first edition (A39-a) and may well be earlier.

A39-b Continental edition, revised

Title Page

THE COMING OF

GABRIELLE

A COMEDY

GEORGE MOORE

AUTHOR OF

“CELIBATES,” “EVELYN INNES,“ “SISTER TERESA,”

“THE UNTILLED FIELD,” ETC.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1922

Launch

Published September 1922

Description

Height: 6 1/2 in; 6.5 in; 16.51 cm

Width: 4 5/8 in; 4.63 in; 11.75 cm

[1]8, 2-168; pp 256, comprising:

half title, with list of thirteen titles in

TAUCHNITZ EDITION

By the same Author

on verso, pp [ 1 -2];

title page, verso blank, pp [3-4];
PREFACE pp [5]-39;
p [40] blank;
fly title, verso blank, pp[41-42];
list of PEOPLE IN THE PLAY and AUTHOR’S NOTE pp [43-44];
text pp [45]-253, with p [116] blank;
p [254] blank;

PRINTED BY BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ, LEIPZIG

in center p [255];

p [256] blank

In some copies there is a 32-page inserted catalogue of publisher’s advertisements following p [256];

no endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
white paper wrappers, inner faces blank, back cover lists

Latest Volumes

September 1922

front cover lettered in black

TAUCHNITZ EDITION

COLLECTION OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS

VOL. 4587

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THE

COMING OF GABRIELLE

GEORGE

MOORE

IN ONE VOLUME

LEIPZIG: BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

PARIS: LIBRAIRIE HENRI GAULON, 39, RUE MADAME

double rule

three-line copyright notice

all within heavy and light double-rule border, which with double-rule borders noted above form a three-compartment box

EACH SOLD SEPARATELY

spine stamped in black [two double rules as in border on front cover]

TAUCHNITZ | EDITION

BRITISH

AND

AMERICAN

AUTHORS

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VOL. 4587

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GEORGE

MOORE

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THE COMING

GABRIELLE

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asterisk

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This edition also was issued in flowered paper covered boards with thin leather label on spine gilt stamped:

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GABRI -

ELLE

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GEORGE

MOORE

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This is a variant binding used on Tauchnitz titles in the mid-1920s. Other GM books in the series, issued earlier in wrappers, are found similarly bound.

Text revised. Further unpublished revisions were made when the play was presented for three performances in July 1923 at St. James’s Theatre, London, with Athene Seyler in the title role.

The revisions may have been the same as the extensive autograph corrections made by GM in a presentation copy of this edition now in the Special Collections Department of the University of Kansas Library, which is inscribed on the title page, “To Alfred Sutro from George Moore with many apologies for the disorder of the text. But there is no other.”

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